Girls of the Sun

"Awkwardly combines taut action with treacly melodrama."

"Frustrating, uneven..."

"By the end there's also a sense of trying to overegg the narrative, with an attempt to top an untimely impending birth with a potentially horrifying "twist" falling somewhat flat (in fact, it feels like something borrowed straight out of The Handmaid's Tale). It's a pity, because somewhere amongst the muddled editing and storytelling there's a terrific drama."

"It's a cracking story, shakily told."

""Girls of the Sun," unlike the women who populate it, is weak and often corny."

"Interested parties are better off checking out some of the documentaries, such as "Gulîstan, Land of Roses," rather than this well-intentioned yet cliché-riddled lunge at the tear ducts."

"Hugely accomplished and highly entertaining cinema. [Husson] tells the tale of an all-female unit of anti-Isis fighters via the language of Hollywood blockbusters."

"Girls of the Sun is partisan and it wears its heart on its sleeve: a powerful, forceful story."

"Representational merits alone can't distinguish this movie's clumsy farrago of good intentions, ham-fisted story choices and cloddishly on-the-nose dialogue."

"At once mildly harrowing and completely over-the-top, intermittently intense yet so unsubtle it winds up doing damage to its own worthy discourse."